EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers

EXERCISE APA 3–5Integrating sources in APA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student sample is correct, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

Many policies on parenting . . . are inspired by research that finds a correlation between the behavior of parents and the behavior of children. Loving parents have confident children, authoritative parents (neither too permissive nor too punitive) have well-behaved children, parents who talk to their children have children with better language skills, and so on. Everyone concludes that to grow the best children, parents must be loving, authoritative, and talkative, and if children don’t turn out well it must be the parents’ fault. But the conclusions depend on the belief that children are blank slates. Parents, remember, provide their children with genes, not just a home environment. The correlations between parents and children may be telling us only that the same genes that make adults loving, authoritative, and talkative make their children self-confident, well-behaved, and articulate.

From Pinker, S. (2003). The blank slate: The modern denial of human nature. Skeptical Inquirer, 27(2), 37-41.

[The source passage is from page 39.]

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EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers - 1 of 5: Pinker (2003) explained that much research on parenting “finds a correlation between the behavior of parents and the behavior of children” (p. 39).

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EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers - 2 of 5: Pinker (2003) has argued against the emphasis on the importance of a child’s upbringing, noting, “Parents . . . provide their children with genes, not just a home environment” (p. 39).

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EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers - 3 of 5: Many people believe that the home environment has a direct effect on the way children grow up. “But the conclusions depend on the belief that children are blank slates” (Pinker, 2003, p. 39).

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EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers - 4 of 5: As Pinker (2003) has pointed out, “Everyone concludes that parents must be loving, authoritative, and talkative, and if children don’t turn out well it must be the parents’ fault. But the conclusions depend on the belief that children are blank slates” (p. 39).

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EXERCISE APA 3–5 Integrating sources in APA papers - 5 of 5: Pinker (2003) pointed out that “children are blank slates” (p. 39).